A radiant dance to stimulate the visual senses
Artist Wang Xiyao blends the cultural and technological tension in her latest work
There is a blend of cultural chaos in Wang Xiyao’s rainbow work of colors.
The 29-year-old was born in the sprawling Chinese city of Chongqing but now lives and works in the German capital of Berlin.
“Her [art] springs from the union of the two cultures, resulting in an interesting field of tension,” Soy Capitán pointed out before Wang’s first solo exhibition, Peach Blossom Spring Story, at its Berlin gallery for contemporary art in 2019.
At times, that “tension” is visible in her latest show, A Dance to Fly in the Blossoming Trees at the Thousand Plateaus Art Space in the Sichuan city of Chengdu.
“In a time when technologies and capitalism almost dominate, [her] works of introspection and contemplation present a fragile yet treacherous gesture,” A Thousand Plateaus Art Space concluded about Wang’s exhibition.
Wang Xiyao’s A Dance to Fly in the Blossoming Trees runs at A Thousand Plateaus Art Space in Chengdu until August 3.
Summer Symposium no.2 | 2020
Material: Acrylic, oil, crayon and pencil on canvas
Dimensions: 200 cm x 190 cm
Image: Courtesy Tang Contemporary Art
Pale Kings Blue | 2019
Material: Acrylic and crayon on canvas
Dimensions: 130 cm x 110 cm
Image: Courtesy Tang Contemporary Art
Give You a Piece of the Pink Sea No.1 | 2020
Material: Acrylic, oil and crayon on canvas
Dimensions: 130 cm x 110 cm
Image: Courtesy Tang Contemporary Art
When He Was Writing the Song No.1 | 2020
Material: Acrylic, oil, crayon and pencil on canvas
Dimensions: 250 cm x 150 cm
Image: Courtesy A Thousand Plateaus Art Space